[c-nsp] Catalyst vs. Nexus

[Phil Mayers]

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:28:25PM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> Now you know (one of the reasons) why some of us love our Juniper
>> M/MX/T routers :-)
> 
> Why am I not suprised at all to see this comment? ;-))
> 
> Now, with Junipers, you have incompatible hardware thingies ("no, you
> cannot use feature X with gige module Y").  But as far as software goes,
> they are doing an amazing job - while Cisco is moving itself deeper and
> deeper into the mud.

It's also worth emphasising that JunOS has a consistent cross-platform 
API for configuring their devices, and has done for a long while now.

Cisco's (embryonic) efforts seem to be falling firmly into the "one XML 
schema per device, but you can tunnel them all over netconf!"

I am not amused.

IOS sometimes feels like the very best that the 1980s has to offer... I 
mean, come on - I was actually IMPRESSED when 12.2(33)SX gave me "show 
run part router bgp ASNUM". Is that really the best we can do in 2009?

Sigh.